Category Archives: Creativity

Apr 15 2013
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, success

Faces and Spaces

Where’s the so-called middle man? The promoter, the publisher, and the “retailer”. Hard to find him, isn’t it?

Our network economy has become the middle man itself. The web is now the middle, the market, and the space where the magic happens.

Think about it. In a way your book sits right next to Stephen King’s book on Amazon’s shelf, your album is in the same iTunes jukebox with U2, and your ideas are one click away from Einstein’s. This was not the case in 1995.

This entry is for our awareness in the commercial shift from places to spaces.

We must realize the economy of the world is not headed towards more physical places, but rather ONE space we can interact, produce, create, communicate, and share in.

You and your ideas don’t need a storefront, they just need to connect with the right people and ideas in the space we call the web.

 

 

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Apr 12 2013
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Helpers

Hope helps perseverance endure.

Gratitude helps reduce the swell of pride.

Steadiness helps keep you in the race.

Vision helps shape your future.

Awareness helps accelerate serendipity.

Commitment helps fight the urge to surrender.

Attitude helps the flavor of your response(s).

Priorities help ensure progress.

Use and pursue these helpers. They’re here to help.

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Apr 11 2013
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, success

Conventional Wisdom and Green Jackets

Conventional wisdom is the body of ideas or explanations generally accepted as true by the public or by experts in a field.

But it has a hard time predicting what really will unfold.

It didn’t plan on Wichita State being in the Final Four.

It never saw the potential for a billion Facebook users.

And it has a hard time defining and wrapping its hands around art, beauty, experience, fulfillment, and meaning.

So why buy into it?

Why pursue it at the cost of losing everything you are actually after?

Metaphorically, all of us want a green jacket in something. But here’s the deal – all of the green jacket owners you have seen or know have taken very unconventional paths to get there.

Shape your shots and release yourself from the crutch of conventional thinking.

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Apr 10 2013
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The You In Universe

You are in the universe that holds the Milky Way that holds our solar system that holds Earth that holds the atmosphere that holds the spot that holds you where you are sitting right now.

Think about that.

It’s as if each step backwards from the spot where you are at to the atmosphere you are in to Earth to the solar system to the Milky Way to the universe is begging you to come join in its jazz.

You matter. This thing counts. There are no do-overs.

The begging universe screams – shine. Please respond with I do.

Do with that what you need to do.

#LTMP

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Apr 03 2013
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Catering…Just How They Like It.

Starbucks wins everyday with one great question – What can I get started for you today?

Sure that’s similar to “how do you like your coffee”, but that question only has two answers (regular or decaf).  On the other hand, the question that Starbucks proposes has hundreds of thousands of options.

When is the last time you asked a customer what you could start for them today?

How often do you ask a customer his/her preference with things like phone calls, texts, email, surveys, tweets, etc.?

You don’t have to be a barista to see that even with something as simple as coffee you and your customer probably have varying definitions of why you’re connecting to do business.

Ask. Then cater to the response.

Your fancy cappuccino machine means nothing to a guy looking for a latte.

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